Monkshood HAHNEMANN. Ranunculaceae.
Mind
Absent mindedness; weakness of memory; cannot remember dates.
Clairvoyance, perception of distant things.
Ecstasy; fancies; delirium, especially at night.
Changing mood, now full of mirth now disposed to tears.
Afraid of a crowd or of crossing busy streets.
Fear of ghosts; of loss of reason; apprehensive of the future.
Fear of approaching death; predicts the day.
Anxiety inconsolable, piteous wailing; reproaches others for the mere trifles; peevish, impatient; pusillanimity.
Anxiety, restless, agonized tossing about.
Oversensitive; cannot bear light or noise; buzzing in the ears; will not be touched or uncovered.
Mood peevish, irritable, malicious; or sad, desponding. After a fright, afraid in the dark. After fright with vexation or anger, heat, congestions, threatened abortion; ailments from fright following later.
Ailments from anger; from chagrin; child has spells of rage.
Imagines some part of the body is deformed, thinks from the stomach.
Sensorium
Vertigo from congestion, as in the sun, after dry, cold winds; from anger, fright; from suddenly suppressed catamenia, by emotions or cold.
Vertigo from a fall or contusion; face pale or red, but no stupor.
Vertigo on raising the head, especially after lying down in a warm room; nausea, vanishing of sight, loss of consciousness, nosebleed; or reeling as if drunk.
Fainting on rising from a recumbent position, with paleness of the face or congestion to the head.
Inner Head,
Sunstroke, especially from sleeping in the rays of the sun.
Brain affection of children, with violent pain in head and oversensitiveness of eyes: or lying stupefied, with vomiting, bowels constipated.
Congestion anxiety, with heat and redness of the face, or pale face; carotids pulsate strongly; pulse full, strong, or small and quick; worse toward evening.
Ebullition, with anxiety.
Fulness and heaviness in the forehead, as if the whole brain would start out through the eyes.
Beating and shooting in the head.
Crampy sensation over the root of the nose, feels as if he would lose his sense; suppressed catarrh.
Headache, as if the brain were moved or raised; worse during motion, drinking, talking or sunlight.
Burning, as if the brain were moved by boiling water.
On going into a warm room, forehead feels as if compressed.
Pressure in forehead, temples and top of head.
Headache, with increased secretion of urine.
Outer Head
Sensation in the vertex as if pulled by the hair.
Sensation of cracking, as from bending tinsel, in temples, forehead and nose, worse toward evening, from motion, better from sitting.
Formication of the scalp, relieved by heat.
Cold sweat on the forehead.
Eyes
Aversion to light, particularly sunlight; light dazzles the eyes.
Optical illusions in dark colors or black.
Flickerings make him anxious, fears he might touch people passing by.
Eyes protruding, staring, distorted. Apoplexy. Asthma Tetanus.
Pupils contracted, then dilated.
Eyes red, inflamed, vessels deep red, burning, pressive shooting pains, especially on moving the balls; no discharge; conjunctivitis from exposure to cold, dry winds.
Violent pains, intense congestion; ophthalmia from suppressed gonorrhoea.
Upper half of the eyeball sore when moved.
Profuse lachrymation, with intense pain.
Conjunctivitis from cinders or other foreign bodies.
Lids hard, red, swollen, feel tense; hot, dry, burning and sensitiveness to air; cold water relieves the dry heat.
Ears
Extreme sensitiveness to noises; music unbearable, goes through every limb; makes her sad.
Roaring in the ears.
Tearing in the left ear.
External ear hot, swollen, red, painfully sensitive.
Nose
Smell acutely sensitive.
Nosebleed, bright red.
Coryza: violent sneezing, fever, thirst, restlessness; dry or fluent; caused by cold air or wind.
Coryza, with headache, roaring in the ears, fever, sleeplessness; especially if coryza has been suppressed by exposure; better in the open air, worse from talking.
Face
Anxious expression.
Face: red and pale alternately; one red, one pale cheek; livid, lips blackish; bloated, unequally red; sensation as if the face was growing larger.
General heat and redness of face, following coldness and sunken look of the same.
On rising, the face turns deadly pale.
Neuralgia of the trigeminus, left side; face red and hot; restlessness, anguish; rolling about screaming. Sensation as if the muscles were firmly but not spasmodically contracted, numbness, heavy feeling of the whole face.
Lower Face
Lips dry, black, peeling off; complaints on the upper lip.
Burning, tingling, numbness of the lips.
Swelling of the lower jaw, with aching in the face.
Stitching thrusts in the lower jaw.
Mouth drawn to one side. Convulsions.
Teeth
Toothache from cold, from dry, cold winds, with throbbing on one side, redness of the cheek, congestion to head, great restlessness; left side.
Grinding the teeth.
Teeth sensitive to cold air; toothache in sound teeth.
Tongue etc.
Taste: bitter, except water; putrid sweetish; like rotten eggs; flat, nauseous, compels hawking of tough mucus.
Trembling and temporary stammering.
Talking; Tongue feels as if swollen, burning, prickling, tingling.
Numbness of mouth and tongue.
Inner Mouth
Dryness of the mouth, tongue and lips.
Accumulation of water in the mouth. Ascarides.
Orifices of the salivary ducts sore, as if corroded.
Saliva generally diminished.
Throat
Redness of soft palate and uvula.
Feeling of dryness, as if something had stuck in the throat.
Stinging in the throat; fauces dark-red, burning.
Burning and numbness in the throat; throat almost insensible.
Pricking, burning in throat and along the eustachian tube, compelling swallowing.
Almost entire inability to swallow, with hoarseness.
When swallowing: stinging pains in throat; feels as if food remained in the region of the heart.
Desires Aversions
Hunger and thirst excessive but eats slowly.
Burning, unquenchable thirst.
Desires for: wine or brandy; beer; bitter drinks.
Loss of appetite or loathing of food, qualmishness.
Eating and Drinking
Better from cold drinks; anxiety relieved.
Drinking ice water causes cough; gastric catarrh, especially from drinking while overheated.
After eating, violent pain in the stomach, with warmth and tenderness; hiccough; nausea (after meat broths).
After wine, blood-spitting, congestions.
Smoking: aggravates palpitation; stupefies.
Nausea and Vomiting
Hiccough.
Nausea, with seat-worms; vomiting of lumbrici and of mucus.
Nausea in oesophagus or stomach, rarely in the throat.
Vomiting: of bile; of green masses; with bitter taste; of blood, of bloody mucus or of what has been drunk, followed by thirst.
Vomiting with anxiety, heat, thirst, profuse sweat and increased micturition.
Stomach
Pressure in the pit of the stomach, as from a weight; after repeated vomiting sensation of a cold stone there.
Burning from stomach, up through the oesophagus to mouth.
Sudden excruciating pain, with gagging, retching, vomiting of blood, gasping; cold sweat on forehead; congestion of mucous lining of stomach. Stage of desquamation in scarlatina.
Region of stomach sensitive to touch.
Hypochondria
Anxious feeling in the praecordia.
Pressure or constriction in region of the liver, with oppression of breathing.
Tension and heaviness in the hypochondria.
Stitches in the region of the liver, taking the breath.
Stitches and heat in the diaphragm.
Abdomen
Colic forces him double, yet relieved in no position; inflammatory, after a cold.
Burning, cutting, darting in the bowels; worse from least pressure or lying on right side.
Abdomen hot to the touch, distended, sensitive; paroxysm of anguish.
Umbilical region hard, swollen. Seat-worms.
Meteorism, vomiting, inability to urinate.
Cutting extending in a circle, from spine to abdomen.
Incarcerated hernia, with bilious vomiting; hernia with excessive sensibility and inflammation or with cold, clammy sweat.
Stool etc.
Stool scanty, loose, frequent, with tenesmus; small, brown, painful, at last bloody. Dysentery.
White, with dark red urine.
Like chopped herbs. Summer complaint.
Bilious diarrhoea of infants, with colic.
Diarrhoea from getting wet; slimy, bloody stools, violent pains in the bowels; tenesmus, also between discharges.
Urging; slimy stools; intolerable nightly tingling, itching at the anus. Seat-worms.
Dysentery or inflammatory diarrhoea during hot days and cold nights.
Cutting, gripping followed by frequent urging to stool after anger or fright.
Alternate slimy stools and constipation. Icterus.
Constipation; clay-colored stools.
Bleeding piles, inflamed; stinging and pressure in anus.
Urine
Sensitiveness of the renal region; shooting pains.
Micturition painful, difficult, drop by drop; frequent desire.
Urine scanty, fiery, scalding hot, dark red, turbid.
Brown, burning urine, with brick-colored sediment.
Enuresis, with thirst.
Diuresis, with headache or profuse sweat.
Retention or suppression of urine, with pressure in the bladder or stitches in the region of the kidney; retention from cold especially in children, with much crying and restlessness.
